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In a few generations you can breed a racehorse. The recipe for making a man like Delacroix is less well known.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Age: 78 †
Born: 1841
Born: February 25
Died: 1919
Died: December 3
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One can thus state, without fear of being wrong, that every truly artistic production has been conceived and executed according to the principle of irregularity.
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The work of art must seize upon you, wrap you up in itself, carry you away. It is the means by which the artist conveys his passion it is the current which he puts forth which sweeps you along in his passion.
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He bores me. He ought to have stuck to his flying machine. [On Leonardo Da Vinci]
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Photography freed painting from a lot of tiresome chores, starting with family portraits.
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The modern architect is, generally speaking, art's greatest enemy.
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Be a good craftsman it won't stop you from being a genius.
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You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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I've known painters who never did any good work because instead of painting their models they seduced them.
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The only reward one should offer an artist is to buy his work.
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I want a red to be sonorous, to sound like a bell. If it doesn't turn out that way, I add more reds and other colors until I get it.
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An artist, under pain of oblivion, must have confidence in himself, and listen only to his real master: Nature.
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Shall I tell you what I think are the two qualities of a work of art? First, it must be indescribable, and second, it must be inimitable.
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I arrange my subject as I want it, then I go ahead and paint it, like a child.
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They tell you that a tree is only a combination of chemical elements. I prefer to believe that God created it, and that it is inhabited by a nymph.
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You don't talk about paintings, you look at them.
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